Habitat for Humanity
Job Position - Project Officer
| Publication | : | Kantipur |
| Job Location | : | Tupche, Nuwakot (Field Visits: Frequent) |
| Experience | : | 2 years |
| Documents Required | : | CV (Resume), Cover Letter |
| Job Category | : | Project Management |
| Job Type | : | Full Time |
| Educational Qualification | : | Bachelor's Degree |
| Posted Date | : | 2016-09-16 |
| Expiry Date | : | 2016-09-25 - 9 Days Left |
Job Description:
Core Function: The Project Officer contributes to the entire range of activities in a project cycle from developing and implementing project plans, to resolving issues that arise during implementation, to monitoring and evaluating projects, ensuring deliverables are achieved and reports drafted in keeping with agreements and budgets.
This position reports to: Project Coordinator
This position is reported to by: TBD
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contributes to project development and strategy
- Responsible for preparing proposals that meet the requirements of institutional donors and partners.
- Responsible for designing and reviewing trainings for partners and/or beneficiaries in coordination with partners
- In-charge of project management, project based monitoring and reporting, ensuring that project deliverables are achieved according to timeline and budgets following a detailed M&E plan as per program design.
- Make adjustments to M&E plan in coordination with other district project teams and line managers as per need or as indicated through lessons learned.
- Ensure that team members fulfill their duty following their job descriptions to ensure smooth project implementation
- Ensure that partners fulfill their duty following their M&E responsibilities and feed in to the real time database. Work in close coordination with the HFHN GIS/Database expert to maintain and update the database
- Ensure timely reporting to donors by encouraging partners and team members to provide timely information to feed into these reports, including GIS/Database information
- Undertake weekly/monthly/ or as per need monitoring visits to project sites to support the partner with implementation
- Supports the Project Coordinator in managing partners as well as in finding synergies among partners and facilitating links to other organizations that can provide additional assistance
- Supports the Project Coordinator in maintaining good relations with relevant partners and institutional donors
- Provides support for Global Volunteers (GV) build implementation, and works in close coordination with the Program GV Coordination Manager, GV Engineer and other GV staff.
- Provides supervision and oversight to partner staff, including performance, planning, goal setting, monitoring, feedback, evaluation and development.
- Liaison with all related stakeholders on district, VDC and community level to support the project implementation
- Other related duties as assigned by direct supervisor
Education and Professional Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work/ Development Studies/ Rural Development/ Sociology or any other relevant subjects
- Minimum 2 years relevant work experience in community development projects.
Skills, Competencies and Experience:
- Language: Excellent in English and Nepali (reading, writing and speaking)
- Computer skills: Excellent in Word, Excel, PowerPoint (Microsoft Office Package)
- Presentation and analytical skills
- Problem solver
- Pro-active/practical thinker
- Team player
- NGO experience
